Would you still pay $10k or more for a turntable not full analog front end these days ?


Or you would rather pay that for a streamer ?

 

inna

My streaming rig (streamer and DAC and interconnect) is modest (by this channel's standards) at ~$6k. My analog (tt/pre/arms/cartridges) is slight higher. 

On my system, analog sounds significantly better for most recordings (old jazz and R&B). Fwiw, my cd player is also $6k and doesn't sound as good either.

That said, as several others have noted streaming kills analog it in convenience.

So for practical reasons I would turn the question on its head. Assuming, I am still talking about music created wit analog mastering, how much will I need to spend upgrading the digital side to not be able to tell the difference. 

Analog is more reliable and convenient, everything is right there, and with streaming you got nothing, something comes from somewhere, maybe, if you are lucky. Upgrade analog, you spent enough on digital already.

As to the question from the OP I would, actually did recently. Reading on WBF it seems the best digital streaming Wadix will run you up to 140 K and according to ML it can get you almost as good as your analog. 

Having pretty much all the music I can see myself enjoying I'll pass. Without my collection maybe do digital, maybe not. I want get as close to sublime as possible. That's where my pleasure lies for the most part. 

My turntable was about 5000 dollars in the "old" day.s...that's 10000 dollars today.

No, that’s a ridiculous amount of money for either component. I can be satisfied 100% with much less than that and use the funds for better purposes.

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I think the solution is buy used on both from a reputable dealer